Combined hammer and lifter



(No Model.)

J. LINDLEY.

COMBINED HAMMER AND LIFTER. I No. 441,879. Patented Dec. 2, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFrcE.

JOIIN LINDLEY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

COMBINED HAMMER AND LIFTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 441,879, dated December 2, 1890.

Application filed March 6, 1890, $erial No. 342,843. (No model.)

To aJZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN LINDLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Combined Hammers and Lifters, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description,

My invention relates to an improvement in hand-hammers, and has for its object to enable the hammer to be adj nstably fixed to the handle in the ordinary position for hamn1ering or in a parallel, or thereabout, position to the handle for use as a stove-lid lifter and for convenience of stowage and carriage.

It consists in two ears or lugs projecting from the hammer-head and having a pin which couples in a segmental circular or other curved hole formed through the end of the handle, combined with features of novelty, as hereinafter claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a side view of a hammer partly in section, and its handle constructed and adapted to my invention; Fig. 2, a similar View thereof showing an altered posit-ion of the parts; Fig 3, a side view of the hammerhead detached; Fig. 4, a similar view thereof at right angles to Fig. 3; and Fig. 5, aside view, detached, of the handle, partly broken.

Like letters and numerals of reference denote like parts in all the figures.

a represents the hammer-head, having the face I) and usual claw c. From the hammerhead a, between the face I) and claw 0, pro ject two parallel ears or lugs d d, between which is placed the end portion of the handle 6, the latter having its end edge f and a suitable length of the adjacent edge f at right angles, or thereabout, to each other and faced so as to be adapted to slide on two oppositelyinclined beds or surfaces 9 g, formed on the hammer-head a in line with the space between the lugs d cl,from which the surface 9 inclines slightly upward toward the claw c and the surface 9 toward the face 6. In the ears or lugs (1 dis fixed a pin 71, which passes through a segmental circular hole 2', formed transversely through the said end portion of the handle 6 and having at its point of radial juncture a circular rabbet or depression 2', which corresponds to the size and shape of the pin it, the two radial or straight surfaces By the above arrangement when the ham mer'head a is in the position shown by full lines and the handle e by dotted lines in Fig.

l the end edge f of the handle e butts against the inclined surface g and the base of the inclined surface g, the pin h being just clear of the radial surface 1 of the hole 2' corresponding to the edge f. On now moving the handle 6 so that its end edge f slides along the hammer-head a toward the face 12, or into the position shown by the full lines in Fig. 1, the edge f will descend the inclined surface 9 and ascend the inclined surface g until the radial surface 1 of the hole 1' is thereby caused to jam against the under side of the pin h and so fix the hammer-head a to the handle c in the necessary position, as in Fig. 1, for hammering, which further tightens the hammer-head a to the handle 6. On forcing back the handle e into its original position (shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1) the radial surface 1 recedes from beneath the pin 71 which is then caused to engage in the circular depres sion 11, so that the hammer-head a may be partially rotated about the pin h and around the corner (which is preferably rounded, as shown) formed by the edges f f of the handle 6 Without fouling the hammerhead a, in which is formed a concavity for allowing of this movement, the concavity 70 being radial to the pin h. On the hammer-head a being thus moved into a parallel position, or thereabout, to the edge f of the handle (2 the pin h is caused to pass from the depression 2" onto the radial surface 2 of the hole 2, in which position the edge f of the handle Q will be in contact with the inclined surfaces g g of the hammer-head 0;, when by forcing the handle 6 endwise toward the claw c, or into the position shown in Fig. 2, the radial surface 2 of the hole t is jammed against the under side of the pin 71, and thereby fixes the hammerhead a firmly to the handle e in the desired position, Fig. 2, for using the claw c as a stovelid lifter or nail-cxtractor,tl1e hook 3' being IOG also available for lifting cooking utensils. The advantages of this position of the barn dle e are that the claw 0 may be thereby operated to extract nails from crevices or places where the handle 6 if in its ordinary position, as in Fig. 1, would prevent access to the nails by the claw 0; also, when used for lifting stove-lids or cooking utensils by the hook j the hand is removed by the horizontal position of the handle e as far as possible from the heat.

I claim as my invention and desire :to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination of the hammer-head at, having on one side twolugs d d and oppositely-inclined surfaces 9 g, the said ham merhead a being provided with the claw c, handle e, having itsend f and'adjacent portionf' of one edgeat right angles, or thereabout, to each other, and a segmental circular or other curved hole 11, formed through the said end portion of the hand-lee, with a pin h, fixed in the lugs d d, and a concavity k in hammerhead a, substantially as shown, and for the purpose described.

2. The combination of the hammer-header, having on one side lugs dd and oppositely-inclined surfaces 99', the said hammer-head a being providedwith the claw c, handlee, having its end f and adjacent portion f of one edge at right angles, or thereabou-t, to each other, and a segmental circular or other .curved hole 1', formed through the said end portion of the handle e, the radial surfaces 1 2 of the hole 1' being inclined to the edges ff, respectively, and having at their junctureangles, or thereabout, to each other, and a segmental circular or other curved hole 2', formed through the said end portion of the .handle 6, the radial surfaces of the hole 1; be-

ing inclined to the edges f f, respectively, and having at their juncture a depression '6, with a pin h, fixed in the lugs 01 d, and a concavity 7c in hain-rner-head a, substantially 1 as shown, and for t-h'e'purposedescribed.

- 4. The combination of the hammer-head (I, having lugs dd and inclined surfaces'g g, handle 6, having'a straight portion f" of one edge, hook j, and a segmental circular or other curved hole 1', with a pin h, fixed in the lugs 61 d, substantially as shown, and for the purpose described.

5. The combination of a hammer-head provided with the usual claw, and having the lugs and pin, with the adjustable handle'having the-described hole, whereby the said handle in either of, its described adjustments,

can be held tightly to the hammer-head, substantially as set forth. 7

' J NO. LINDLEY.

Witnesses:

CHAS. Gonna, EDWARD W. FARRELL. 

